You've obviously never run out of string and had to resort to robbing the string box of the baler.
Busy fools!
- Thread starter -chris-
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You've obviously never run out of string and had to resort to robbing the string box of the baler.
poorsheepfarmer
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- Location
- North York Moors
Stupidly didn't make any small bales this year, now't to tie gates up with now.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Very true, we can all earn money at what we're good at. Concentrate on that and pay someone else to do the job that they're good at.
My dad thinks I'm mad for paying the hunt to pick up deadstock, he'd rather drive 45 mins and take it to the knackerman to save £20
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I know a few that will always tie it in a bow so they can use it again
It is
Same here. I have to go and raid the neighbours rubbish heap for the stuff. We only have net wrapped round bales here.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
How much Hesston band do you want?
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
You've obviously never run out of balls of string and had to tie the old bits together again!
Dad's favourite used to be mending wheelbarrows, took him a couple of days when a new one was £10.
I was mending one last year (just a few spots of weld, honest) and he walked past and laughed at me!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
hand rearing cade lambs.
Hand pulling beet field corners. Three days hard labour to lift £80 worth of beet.
Pulling all the old rusted wire out of hedge bottoms before putting up new fencing.
Hoovering out the barn before harvest time. The walls are porous and it looks better cosmetically, but there's still barrow loads of dust engrained in there.
Running a tap and die over a set of rusty old nuts and bolts so we can use them again.
Taking a cylinder head off, lapping the valves in a bit then putting it back on again as a proper refurb "would cost a fortune".
Hand roguing wild oats that are so thick they should have been sprayed off.
Digging up land drain tiles, cleaning them out and relaying them.
Putting fodder beet through the old root cutter "to give the beast a bit of variety",
Small bales.
keeping a few hens/pigs etc for the house.
Picking up all the sticks for firewood round a fallen tree.
Breaking all the lathes out of the plaster ceiling of demolished farm buildings so we had about twenty years supply of kindling for the fire.
Smashing up rubble with sledge hammers to mend the farm road.
yes, I've been there.
Hand pulling beet field corners. Three days hard labour to lift £80 worth of beet.
Pulling all the old rusted wire out of hedge bottoms before putting up new fencing.
Hoovering out the barn before harvest time. The walls are porous and it looks better cosmetically, but there's still barrow loads of dust engrained in there.
Running a tap and die over a set of rusty old nuts and bolts so we can use them again.
Taking a cylinder head off, lapping the valves in a bit then putting it back on again as a proper refurb "would cost a fortune".
Hand roguing wild oats that are so thick they should have been sprayed off.
Digging up land drain tiles, cleaning them out and relaying them.
Putting fodder beet through the old root cutter "to give the beast a bit of variety",
Small bales.
keeping a few hens/pigs etc for the house.
Picking up all the sticks for firewood round a fallen tree.
Breaking all the lathes out of the plaster ceiling of demolished farm buildings so we had about twenty years supply of kindling for the fire.
Smashing up rubble with sledge hammers to mend the farm road.
yes, I've been there.
Gormers
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- Location
- east yorkshire
You forgot reaping all the dyke brays and then forking the dead grass onto a rully , forking it off and onto beet heap to stop frost. Forking it off to load beet and then........ oh fork it
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Growing mangolds for the sheep. Had to hand pull them all before the frosts came.
Dad remembers scything round the field to open up for the binder so the tractor didn't run any down.
Making hay on the roadside verges.
Scything out the hedge bottoms, cutting the hedges with a McConnell finger bar cutter, raking up the thorns, carting them off an burning them.
Countryside was neat and tidy then. None of these 2m strips of rubbish!
Dad remembers scything round the field to open up for the binder so the tractor didn't run any down.
Making hay on the roadside verges.
Scything out the hedge bottoms, cutting the hedges with a McConnell finger bar cutter, raking up the thorns, carting them off an burning them.
Countryside was neat and tidy then. None of these 2m strips of rubbish!
- Location
- Ceredigion
I love stone picking , when I get home I start building with my pickings of the dayPicking stones.
Any machinery repairs maintenance when contracting is all unpaid time
Davos
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- Location
- East Yorks
We used to grow mangolds (called wuzzles round here) they were harvested by hand pulling them with one hand, and as you did you used a knife a bit like a small machete chopping the top off and putting that in one row and the wuzzle in the other.Then the mangolds were picked up with a pitch fork into a 3 ton trailer to be taken home and strawed down in a heap for winter, being put through a chopper for the cattle when needed.
Cutting hedges with a Webb hand held cutter holding a lever down with your thumb to engage it.
Cleaning out the corn store before harvest where we had a grain elevator that sat in a pit that sometimes filled with water ,you could usually find a dead rat or two and rotten corn, the aroma was pretty eye watering.Cleaning all the rat sh1t from behind the simplex corn bins.
Happy days.
Cutting hedges with a Webb hand held cutter holding a lever down with your thumb to engage it.
Cleaning out the corn store before harvest where we had a grain elevator that sat in a pit that sometimes filled with water ,you could usually find a dead rat or two and rotten corn, the aroma was pretty eye watering.Cleaning all the rat sh1t from behind the simplex corn bins.
Happy days.
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Forking hull muck out of a doorway onto a trailer used to take weeks.
kneedeep
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- Location
- S W Lancashire
Theoretically of course you are bang on. So does your bank balance reflect your practice of the theory?? -
smcapstick
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- Kirkby Lonsdale
I wish!Theoretically of course you are bang on. So does your bank balance reflect your practice of the theory?? -
I look at it like this - time is worth money, hence wages. If you are working for an hour to save £5, you should down tools and go and get a bar job (or whatever) as you'll make more than that and have no responsibility to worry about after your shift.
Corn bins
used to sit and watch 10 tonne of corn go up a 4 inch auger into a 20 tonne bin, i think we had 8 of them, but because the auger couldnt reach the middle of the bin because the roof was so low you would have to climb up and lay on your side at the top of a hot dusty shed and shovel the corn level on top of the bin to get the extra few tonnes in, then you would have to shovel the last 3 tonne out of the bottom of the bin! the joys of child labour i was forced to do!
i think my brother still uses this system
used to sit and watch 10 tonne of corn go up a 4 inch auger into a 20 tonne bin, i think we had 8 of them, but because the auger couldnt reach the middle of the bin because the roof was so low you would have to climb up and lay on your side at the top of a hot dusty shed and shovel the corn level on top of the bin to get the extra few tonnes in, then you would have to shovel the last 3 tonne out of the bottom of the bin! the joys of child labour i was forced to do!
i think my brother still uses this system
Busy fools? - that'll be anyone with wheat in the ground for this harvest - £118 off the combine and falling fast.
As for barley, that must be getting near to sub £100 territory.
Its a fine line between 'busy fools' and 'fookin idiots', and we're all just about to step over it.
As for barley, that must be getting near to sub £100 territory.
Its a fine line between 'busy fools' and 'fookin idiots', and we're all just about to step over it.